Dear Manolo: PhD Pumps

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I WILL SOON receive my graduate degree. What better occasion for fantastic shoes than this day? I want something with presence, a shoe with exuberance, panache and substance.
— Suzy

Manolo says, the Manolo hopes that his soon-to-be newly graduated friend has the gainful employment awaiting her at the end of her exuberantly panacheful walk across the stage of education. Otherwise, it is out into the recessionary world where jobs are scarce, and every cappuccino jockey and movie-theater usher has the doctorate in comparative literature. And these are the lucky ones, as the philosophy majors are standing on the street corners with cardboard signs announcing their availability to "engage in Kantian dialectics for food."

The Manolo hopes his friend's new degree is in something more useful, like bankruptcy studies or post-structural penny-pinching. Here is the round-toed pump from Marc by Marc Jacobs ($264, Zappos.com). These panache-laden shoes are not your typical stiletto dealio. And they are on sale! You can begin your new life on the note of fiscal responsibility.

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